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Upstate New York is a geographic region of New York that lies north and northwest of the New York City metropolitan area of downstate New York. [1] [2] Upstate includes the middle and upper Hudson Valley, the Capital District, the Mohawk Valley region, Central New York, the Southern Tier, the Finger Lakes region, Western New York, and the North Country.
Articles related to the region of Upstate New York, consisting of the portion of New York State lying north of the New York City metropolitan area. Subcategories This category has the following 9 subcategories, out of 9 total.
Upstate New York showed an unusual amount of electoral strength when Buffalo's Carl Paladino and Panama's Greg Edwards defeated downstate candidates Rick Lazio and Thomas Ognibene for the Republican nomination in the New York gubernatorial election, 2010, largely by their overwhelming support upstate and in Western New York (as high as 93% for ...
Upstate New York, broadly defined as part of New York north of New York City and Westchester County, which immediately borders New York City, is home to several skyscrapers and high-rises. [1] The tallest building in New York State is the 104-story One World Trade Center , which was completed in 2014 and rises to 1,776 feet (541 m) in Lower ...
Part of a series on Regions of New York Downstate New York New York City Long Island Hudson Valley (Lower) Upstate New York Hudson Valley (Middle and Upper) Capital District North Country Southern Tier Mohawk Valley Central New York Finger Lakes Western New York Administrative divisions Counties Cities Towns Indian reservations Villages Census-designated places Places (including hamlets ...
New York has also attracted higher-wage visual-effects employment by further augmenting its tax credit to a maximum of 35% for performing post-film production work in Upstate New York. [249] The filmed entertainment industry has been growing in New York, contributing nearly $9 billion to the New York City economy alone as of 2015. [250] "I Love ...
The North Country of Upstate New York is the northernmost region of the U.S. state of New York.It is bordered by Lake Champlain to the east and further east to the adjacent state of Vermont and the New England region; the Adirondack Mountains / Adirondack Park and the Upper Capital District with the state capital of Albany to the south; the Mohawk Valley region of New York to the southwest ...
Proposed map of an independent New York City. Tensions between what eventually became upstate and downstate New York had existed since Leisler's Rebellion in 1689. That rebellion was more heavily supported in the lower Hudson Valley, near modern New York City, than it was in the Albany area, which remained loyal to the English crown (at the time, the Glorious Revolution was underway in England).